Survivors of trafficking and modern slavery should not have to be means tested to qualify for legal aid, states a coalition of trafficking and legal experts.
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9 May 2022
By Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) and the Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS)
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20 Apr 2022
In this guest blog for FLEX, Naeema Ahmed (MBA), Network Manager for the UK BME Anti-Slavery Network (BASNET), highlights the particular vulnerabilities faced by victims and survivors of trafficking from ethnic minority communities and BASNET's work
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8 Apr 2022
The Seasonal Worker visa is a short term work visa which allows visa holders to enter the UK for 6 months in any 12 month period to work in agriculture or horticulture. As part of the UK’s response to the invasion of Ukraine,
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5 Apr 2022
Over the past months, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) and the East European Resource Centre (EERC) have been busy running a project to help prevent labour exploitation
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7 Mar 2022
To mark International Women’s Day 2022, FLEX publishes ‘Tackling sexual harassment in low-paid and insecure work’, a position paper highlighting the gap in enforcement of sexual har
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23 Feb 2022
On Wednesday 16 February, the Government published the responses of the bodies subject to recommendations and actions
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14 Feb 2022
Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) and the East European Resource Centre (EERC) are launching a new project to help prevent labour exploitation in the UK’s cleaning sector.
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9 Feb 2022
Two amendments discussed earlier this week by Peers in the context of the Nationality and Borders Bill would have ensured that migrant victims of crime, including domestic abuse, labour exploitation and trafficking, are safe to report crime and seek assistance from the authorities without fear th
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13 Jan 2022
On 24th December 2021, the Government published the long-awaited review of the first year of the Seasonal Workers Pilot (2019), an evaluation carried out by DEFRA and the Home